Full name: Ivan Andreevich Knyazev

Date of birth: September 11, 1981

Occupation: propagandist, journalist, presenter of the Moscow 24 TV channel

Places of residence:

• Svetly, Kaliningrad region, st. Lenina, 20, apt. 22
• Moscow, st. Onezhskaya, 18, bldg. 1, apt. 19
• Moscow, Zoya and Alexander Kosmodemyanskikh St., Building 35/1, Apt. 131
• Moscow, Kashenkin Lug St., Building 6, Bldg. 3, Apt. 227

Data:

• Passport: 2703838400
• INN: 391301066845
• SNILS: 03530763331
• driver’s license: 39EA348327

Phones:

• +79037465586 (tg id: 569663421)

Mail:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Transport:

• GEELY COOLRAY 2024, г/н Т336КУ39, VIN Y4K8622ZXRB908906

Daughter: Varvara Ivanovna Knyazeva

Date of birth: August 7, 2009

Phones:

• +79622536106

Mother: Knyazeva Victoria Ivanovna

Date of birth: May 25, 1961

Phones:

• +79114828224

Father: Knyazev Andrey Alexandrovich

Date of birth: April 25, 1960

Phones:

• +79316042435

Sister: Knyazeva Tatyana Andreevna

Date of birth: April 24, 1987

Phones:

• +79110705883

Propagandist Ivan Andreevich Knyazev was born on September 11, 1981, in Svetly, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. He is a philologist and teacher by education (he graduated from Kaliningrad State University).

From 2002 to 2009, he built a regional career: he worked as a presenter and editor-in-chief at the Kaliningrad State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, taught journalism at Kazan State University, and later was the chief news editor at the Kaskad National Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.

From 2009 to 2016, he joined state media. He served as a producer-editor and presenter on the television channels Russia 24 (including reporting for the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation) and Moscow 24.

In 2018–2019, he headed the Non-News Content Department at TASS and held the position of PR Director at the Center for Strategic Research in Civil Aviation.

From 2019 to 2022, he worked as a news anchor on the Public Television of Russia (OTR) and taught at the School of Radio and Television “Na Shabolovka”.

In 2022, he continued his propaganda activities, returning to the Moscow 24 TV channel as a presenter.

Since 2023, he has been a professor at the HSE Institute of Media and the academic director of the Journalism educational program.

With the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ivan Knyazev continued his active work within state media, becoming one of the mouthpieces of Kremlin propaganda on the Moscow 24 television channel.

Using his status as a news anchor, he systematically rebroadcasts official pro-Russian narratives, justifying armed aggression against Ukraine and the occupation of sovereign territories. Knyazev is actively engaged in information support for the actions of the Russian army, spreading disinformation and misleading viewers, concealing facts about Russian war crimes.

In 2023, after assuming the position of Academic Director of the Journalism program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, he began using the educational platform for ideological indoctrination of students. He is effectively training and legitimizing new recruits for the Russian propaganda machine, instilling pro-government attitudes into the educational process. Through his professional activities, Ivan Knyazev knowingly supports Russian aggression and is an accomplice to the information war.

Knyazev also moderates the propaganda podcast “Purity of Understanding” (together with Z-technologists Alexey Chadayev and Semyon Uralov). As part of this project, he contributes to the creation of materials aimed at discrediting Ukraine’s statehood, helping to promote manipulative narratives about the “degeneration of Ukrainian political culture” and rampant corruption.

The destructive activities of this project extend beyond anti-Ukrainian propaganda: it was because of the content of this podcast that Azerbaijan placed Knyazev, Chadayev, and Uralov on an international wanted list, accusing the propagandists of inciting terrorism, violating the country’s territorial integrity, and inciting ethnic hatred. All three have been remanded in custody in absentia.